Re: Workrave and similar programs

Hi Ilian,

If workrave interrupts you once every hour, you should consider yourself
very lucky. For me, it interrupts me once every 2.5 minutes :-) And yes,
I use it all the time (though I sometimes choose to ignore it :-)

I think it is important to somehow have the feeling that you, yourself
are in control, instead of workrave. If you feel like being trapped by a
tool telling you things, you're probably not going to be very happy
about it.

Instead of feeling like workrave is telling you to do things, you could
also consider workrave's intrusions as friendly advice or well-meant
recommendations. After all, you, yourself have asked workrave to
interrupt you, presumably because it is for your own good.

If you find it hard to delude (for lack of a better term) yourself this
way, you could change workraves settings to be less restrictive: show
skip/postpone buttons and/or don't block you from continuing to work
when workrave prompts you to break. That should help relieve the feeling
of being trapped a little.

Best of luck,

Groetjes,

Kees-Jan


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